Soyuz Lakeside Single channel Class A preamp

The Soyuz Lakeside is a single-channel Class-A microphone preamp built for engineers who want more than clean gain. It is a character piece, designed to bring weight, depth and harmonic colour into the recording chain while staying clear, controlled and easy to use.

Built around a fully discrete Class-A circuit with custom-wound Soyuz transformers on both the input and output, the Lakeside gives microphones, instruments and line-level sources a rich, finished quality before the signal reaches the converter. It can be used gently for full-bodied tone and clean headroom, or driven harder for dynamic breakup, saturation and a more pronounced vintage-style texture.

Control is simple and musical. The input gain switch works in 5 dB steps from 10 to 60 dB, making it easy to set level, repeat settings and match stereo pairs. The output trim lets you fine-tune the level going into the next stage, so you can push the input transformer and circuit for colour without overloading your recorder or interface.

The front-panel 1/4\\\" DI input gives the Lakeside another useful role in the studio, adding body and life to bass guitar, electric guitar, synths, drum machines and other high-impedance sources. It can also be used creatively for re-amping stems, recordings and full mixes through its transformer-balanced path.

A special part of the design is the inductor-based high-pass filter. Instead of a basic low-cut, the Lakeside offers a stepped 18 dB/octave filter with frequency points from 40 Hz to 330 Hz. Its musical resonance helps shape the low end with character, whether you are removing rumble, tightening a vocal or carving space in a dense arrangement.

The Soyuz Lakeside is a serious modern preamp with a classic sense of tone. It combines handcrafted transformer colour, discrete Class-A electronics and practical studio control in a 1U format that feels immediately musical on vocals, guitars, drums, synths and almost any source that needs a little more life.

Main Features

- Single-channel Class-A microphone preamp
- Fully discrete through-hole circuitry
- Custom-wound Soyuz input and output transformers
- Input gain from 10 to 60 dB in 5 dB steps
- Output trim control for level matching and saturation control
- Front-panel 1/4\\\" DI input
- Suitable for microphones, instruments, high-impedance sources and re-amping
- Inductor-based high-pass filter
- 18 dB/octave cutoff filter
- Filter points: 40, 55, 70, 90, 120, 150, 180, 220, 270 and 330 Hz
- Mic input impedance: 1.2 kOhm
- DI input impedance: over 1 MOhm
- Output impedance: under 80 Ohms
- Frequency response: 20 Hz to 20 kHz ±0.5 dB at 40 dB gain, loaded with 600 Ohms
- Extended frequency response: 8 Hz to 40 kHz ±5 dB at 40 dB gain, loaded with 600 Ohms
- Equivalent input noise: -120 dB at 40 dB gain, loaded with 600 Ohms
- THD+N: under 0.02% at 40 dB gain and +18 dBu output
- Maximum output: +27 dBu at 0.2% THD, +31 dBu at 1.5% THD
- 1U rackmount format
- Size: 483 mm faceplate width, 214 mm depth, 44 mm height
- Weight: 4.96 kg

PSU is switchable between 110V and 220V, currently set to work on 220V. EU power cord included.

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